yy ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 
shaped, many-seeded. Small herbs growing in damp or 
shaded places. 
(S. MEDIA), ComMoN CHICKWEED. Stems weak and procum- 
bent, each traversed lengthwise by a hairy line; leaves ovate or 
oblong, the lower ones with hairy petioles; petals shorter than the 
sepals ; stamens 3-10. Annual. 
RANUNCULACEZA, CROWFOOT FAMILY. 
Mostly herbs, with colorless and usually acrid juice. 
Sepals 3-6. Petals 4-15, or absent. Stamens numerous, 
hypogynous. Pistils all distinct and unconnected with the 
perianth. Fruit consisting of numerous akenes (Fig. 169), of 
several follicles (Fig. 171), or sometimes of berries. Leaves 
without stipules, often clasping at the base (Fig. 170), fre- 
quently much cut or divided. 
I. ANEMONE, ANEMONE, WIND-FLOWER. 
Sepals few or numerous, colored and petal-like; petals 
usually wanting; akenes pointed, or with long, feathery 
tails. Perennial herbs, with radical leaves, and 2 or 5 oppo- 
site or whorled stem-leaves, constituting an involucre some 
distance below the flower or flower-cluster. 
a. (A. CYLINDRICA), LONG-FRUITED ANEMONE. Plant about 2 
ft. high, branching, with an involucre of long-petioled, divided and 
cleft leaves, from within which spring several long naked peduncles. 
Flowers greenish-white. Head of fruit cylindrical, composed of very 
many densely woolly akenes. 
b. (A. NEMOROSA), WIND-FLOWER, Woop ANEMONE. Stem sim- 
ple, from a thread-like root-stalk ; involucre of 5 leaves, each petioled, 
and of 3 leaflets, which are cut, toothed, or parted; peduncle 
1-flowered ; sepals 4-7, white, often tinged with bluish outside; 
carpels 15 or 20. 
II. HEPATICA, LIVERLEAF, LIVERWORT, NOBLE 
LIVERWORT. 
Involucre of 3 small simple leaves, so close to the flower 
as to look like a calyx. Leaves all radical, heart-shaped, 
